Week 7: Chapter 11-12 Questions & Project 8-10 Reflections Chapter 11 – Question 3 Online social interaction offers great opportunity to develop and practice positive social as well as good communication skills. However, the threat of cyberbullying and the possibility of inappropriate sharing require protecting children. What do you think the role of online social interaction should be in schools? What steps should educators take to ensure that such integration can be done safely? For students, online access is becoming a second-hand item. They see it young and they continue to have access to it as they age. In many cases, this can be beneficial. Online access, social media specifically, can offer many positive traits. However, it is important that children are aware and protected from the negatives. There are three ways that I currently strive to protect children from cyber bullying within our school. Nonetheless, without 100% access to the student, no plan is foolproof. The three items that we employ at my school are education on social media, parental blocks on computers, monitoring software on their computers. First, and most important, is educating the students. With students spending a lot of their day not being monitored by a teacher, it is important to give them the tools they need for when they lack the guidance at home. My school has brought in guest speakers to talk about how social media effects today's society. The speaker, who was a former detective, did a great job talking about how social media plays a big role in jobs, organizations, and marketing. These items can all be affected, both negatively and positively, by the user. This past year was our first year to bring in a speaker, and the impact was positive on students. It showed the students the reality of the total capacity of social media on each person’s everyday life. The two other items we do are very helpful, but they only help on school provided devices. These items are parental blocks on the laptops provided, and monitoring software available to all teachers for any student. These items have helped to monitor the students use and to ensure that each student was using software for the correct reason. The software program that our school uses for monitoring is GoGuardian. The platform is extremely helpful in monitoring screen use. Again, both are beneficial for their time within the classroom, but they do not monitor personal phones or computers. Monitoring is important for classroom use, but it is crucial that the educator gives students the tools they need when outside of a classroom format. We, as educators, must teach students how cyber bullying can affect the person being bullied, and how it can have a negative affect on the student who is causing the bullying. I always tell my students, once it is out there, it stays out there forever. Chapter 12 – Question 1 As emerging technologies continue to affect education, there is little question that the role of the teacher will change. Imagine yourself teaching a class in 20 years. How do you think your role would be different from the typical teacher’s role today? Teaching is constantly revolutionizing with technology. Even today, teaching has dramatically progressed within the last 5-10 years. Technology is playing a larger role within classrooms, and progressing the way that teachers are implementing topics. Online resources are readily available to students, and hard copy libraries are becoming obsolete. More and more teachers are using technology, mainly the internet, as a tool to help struggling students and progress advanced students. This progress will not stop but will continue to push for a different form of education within the next 20 years. Technology will cause the biggest change over the next 20 years. Online classes will become more readily available, and education will be pushed to be more online friendly. I believe that the teacher’s role will become more of an administrator of material than a teacher of material. However, the material must be formed by someone, and the teacher will have to be prepared to fit the role. The classes will be running more as a “teach yourself” format, and students will be held more accountable for their work and understanding. The teacher must be prepared to provide endless amounts of resources and time to the students to guide those who struggle with this format. The higher the education course level, the more computerized the content will be delivered. If online classes were readily available to middle and high school students, maintaining a school ground would be unnecessary. The additional cost of maintain the school ground would be no longer an issue. More funding would go to technology equipment and resources. Teachers would be assigned their classes online and would meet digitally or strictly through online submissions. With this advance, technology would be the backbone of classes. However, this would require more discipline on the students and their household. Although I do think we are going in this direction 20 plus years from now, I still believe there is an advance that needs to be gaped within the meantime. Teaching students how to use this technology as a resource to self-teach is harder for some students. Hands-on requirements would still need to be maintained for special needs students. This would also require students to have access of internet and a computer or hand-held device. For lower income areas, this could become an issue that would have to be resolved. Reflection – Projects 8-10 After completing the projects created with online tools, I would like to hear your thought on how to integrate these tools in classroom teaching and why. Upload/embed/link these mini projects to the end of your reflection. The tools used this week were very easy to compile. This week we made a Quizizz, RubiStar, Thinglink, Scoop.it!, and a Padlet. Of all these items, the rubric maker and Padlet were my favorite items. Being a newer teacher, going into my third year, I have had to create a rubric from scratch. I spent much time compiling how to word items, what I wanted, and how to make it effective. Once completed, I noticed I took several hours to make one document. The rubric tool through RubiStar took me a matter of minutes. I was able to use their template and edit the few items that I wanted to alter. The other item I enjoyed working with was Padlet. I will most certainly use this in my classroom. It is a great way to compile a lot of information to easily access on a certain topic. The backgrounds made the items fun to view, and the linking allowed all sites to easily be accessed or viewed through a quick click of the mouse. All the items were very resourceful and easy to use. Given the different areas that need additional assistance in the classroom, I could see how all of these could be used. As a teacher, there are never too many resources that can be used as an additional resource or primary resource. Check out my projects below: Quizizz , Game Code: 200474 Rubistar Thinglink Scoop.it! Padlet You can also view all items on my classroom site HERE.
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April
7/21/2019 06:32:20 am
Hi Jamie, I enjoyed reading your posts this week. I think you are absolutely right - educators in the future will be more like curators of content. Teaching and learning are shifting rapidly and with AI much of education will shift to responsive/personalized learning so it will be important that good solid content is available for the adaptive tools to feed students the right content at the right time. ~April
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Jena
7/22/2019 09:46:32 am
Jamie, I was very interested in your perspective of future online education. It never occurred to me that one day there might not be an actual school building, but I don't doubt it. I also heard of high schools that require their students to take at least one online class to prepare them for college. I agree that a majority of education in the future will come through some sort of distant learning. Also, I love your website because I think it is age appropriate and easy to navigate. Great job!
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Courtney
7/25/2019 05:54:05 pm
Jamie,
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